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IAPR TC-11 Newsletter
June 2014
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- ACCV 2014, Singapore June 20
- DRR 2015, San Francisco, USA July 14
* New and Recently Published Datasets
* Recently Published: Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
D. Doermann, K. Tombre (Eds.), Springer, 2014.
* Call for Papers:
- 1st International Workshop on Robust Reading, Singapore, November 1/2, 2014
(in conjunction with ACCV 2014)
* Call for Dataset Submissions
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the June edition of our TC-11 newsletter. In this edition I would
like to draw your attention to the recently published "Handbook of Document
Image Processing and Recognition" edited by Dave Doermann and Karl Tombre that
is now available in two impressive volumes from Springer. Below you will also
find an update on the Call for Papers for the First International Workshop on
Robust Reading that will be held in conjunction with ACCV 2014. In addition, I
would like to remind you that the deadline for submitting papers to the ACCV
main conference is TODAY, i.e., June 20, 2014 - 23:59 PDT (GMT-7).
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* ACCV 2014, Singapore November 1-5 June 20
(http://www.accv2014.org/)
* DRR 2015, San Francisco, USA February 11-12, 2015 July 14
(http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015)
* IWRR 2014, Singapore November 1 or 2 September 12
(http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/)
* CVPR 2015, Bosten, United States June 8-10, 2015 November 14
(http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/)
* IWCF 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24 - passed -
(http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwcf2014)
* ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 - passed -
(http://www.icpr2014.org/)
* ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 1-4 - passed -
(http://www.icfhr2014.org/)
* BMVC 2014, Nottingham, UK September 1-5 - passed -
(http://bmvc2014.cs.nott.ac.uk/)
* GCPR 2014, Mu"nster, Germany September 2-5 - passed -
http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GCPR2014/
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========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ======================
Dataset: Main Purpose: Published:
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* CROHME Recognition of Online HW Math Expressions 2/2014
(more than 10k expressions from 100s of writers)
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recogntion_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions
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For a list of all datasets available visit:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List
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========== Recently Published ==============================================
D. Doermann, K. Tombre (Eds.)
Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
* A comprehensive reference on the methods and techniques used in
document image processing and recognition, for both experienced
and novice researchers
* Integrates and summarizes work on closely related tasks that are
treated separately in the field
* Includes unified comparison and contrast analyses of algorithms in
standard table formats
The Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition provides a
consistent, comprehensive resource on the available methods and techniques in
document image processing and recognition. It includes unified comparison and
contrast analysis of algorithms in standard table formats. Thus, it educates
the reader in order to help them to make informed decisions on their particular
problems.
The handbook is divided into several parts. Each part starts with an
introduction written by the two editors. These introductions set the general
framework for the main topic of each part and introduces the contribution of
each chapter within the framework. The introductions are followed by several
chapters written by established experts of the field.
Each chapter provides the reader with a clear overview of the topic and of the
state of the art in techniques used (including elements of comparison between
them). Each chapter is structured in the same way: It starts with an
introductory text, concludes with a summary of the main points addressed in the
chapter and ends with a comprehensive list of references. Whenever appropriate,
the authors include specific sections describing and pointing to consolidated
software and/or reference datasets. Numerous cross-references between the
chapters ensure this is a truly integrated work, without unnecessary
duplications and overlaps between chapters.
This reference work is intended for the use by a wide audience of readers from
around the world such as graduate students, researchers, librarians, lecturers,
professionals, and many other people.
(from the Springer Product Flyer)
For more information and a electronic Product Flyer see the books
announcement at Springer online:
http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/book/978-0-85729-858-4?otherVe
rsion=978-0-85729-860-7
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========== Call for Papers: IWRR 2014 ======================================
First International Workshop on Robust Reading
(in conjunction with ACCV 2014)
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November 1 or 2, 2014
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Web: http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/
Interpreting written communication (textual or symbolic) is one of the
most important human activities. It is, however, one of the most
difficult ones for computers to realize and has been recognized as an
unsolved challenge. In the community of Document Analysis and
Recognition (DAR), research on unconstrained reading systems has been of
central interest. The series of ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC),
which is held in conjunction with biannual International Conference of
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), has played an important role,
especially, by providing standardized datasets that have become the
de-facto evaluation benchmarks in the area and providing an opportunity
to compare methods.
Recently, this kind of research, especially research on reading scene
text, has attracted the interest and is increasingly accepted by the
wider computer vision (CV) community. Papers on related topics have been
consistently presented in major CV conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV
and ACCV. In these papers, ICDAR RRC datasets are used as standard
measures of methods.
Responding to this trend, we organize the First International Workshop
on Robust Reading (IWRR 2014) in conjunction with ACCV 2014. The
workshop aims at turning the spotlight on the challenge of unconstrained
reading systems. The goal of the workshop is to attract the wider CV
community to put research efforts on this challenging research topic, as
well as to motivate many researchers from the DAR community to attend
ACCV 2014.
Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition
- Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences
- Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images
- Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
- Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text
- Performance evaluation and metrics
- Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc
- Graphical content interpretation in complex settings
Submission (Updated!)
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The workshop organizers welcome original technical papers related to the
workshop topics. All submissions must follow the guideline of ACCV 2014.
Namely, submissions must be a maximum of 14 pages (not including
references). Supplementary material can be submitted. Submissions,
including supplementary material, must be self-contained. Submitted
papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee in a double
blind manner (so all submissions must be anonymised). Papers violating
the formatting rules will be rejected without review.
There is another way of submission; submit your paper to ACCV2014 and
designate IWRR as the "optional workshop." Please see the workshop
webpage for more detail.
Publication (Updated!)
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Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will
be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series and also contained in the USB stick distributed in the conference
site. Accepted papers must be registered and presented; otherwise they
will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
The workshop organizers welcome technical papers with novel,
thought-provoking work and ideas relating to the workshop topics. All
submissions must be formatted in ACCV 2014 format and contain original
work that is not being published or under review elsewhere. Each
submission will undergo a double-blind reviewing process. All accepted
papers will be published online on the workshop website. More
information can be found on the workshop website.
Important Dates (Updated!)
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Paper submission due: September 10, 2014
Author Notification: September 24, 2014
Camera-ready paper due: September 30, 2014
Co-Chairs
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Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan)
Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
Faisal Shafait (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
Pramod Sankar Kompalli (Xerox Research India, India)
Program Committee (Updated!)
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Alessandro Bissacco (Google, USA)
Sergi Belongie (Cornell Univ., USA)
Bernard Ghanem (King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Saudi
Arabia)
Erik Learned-Miller (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Raghavan Manmatha (Amazon.com, USA)
Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Gaofeng Meng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ajmal Saeed Mian (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
Ray Smith (Google, USA)
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara (National University of Malaya, Malaysia)
Jun Sun (Fujitsu R&D China, China)
Phan Quy Trung (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Kai Wang (Google, USA)
Jerod J. Weinman (Grinnell College, USA)
Inquiries: iwrr2014-inquiry@ml.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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========== Call for Dataset Submissions ====================================
We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of
new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to
particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets,
software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting.
Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for
archiving (
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to
contact Marcus Liwicki, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you
might have on the process.
Marcus Liwicki, TC-11 Dataset Curator
liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de
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========== Call for Contributions ==========================================
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to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending
a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink .
Such news could be the obvious announcements of conferences and workshops,
job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything
that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of
reading systems.
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